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Rock and rhapsodies : the music of Queen / Nick Braae.
Author
Braae, Nick
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
©2021
Description
1 online resource (321 pages)
Availability
Available Online
Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Music
University Press Scholarship Online Music
Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Music
University Press Scholarship Online Music
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Subject(s)
Rock music
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Analysis, appreciation
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Queen (Musical group)
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Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Summary note
What, exactly, gave Queen's songs their magical and distinct musical identity? 'Rock and Rhapsodies' answers this question through a fascinating musicological study of the band's output.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2021.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Contents
cover
Rock and Rhapsodies
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Musical Examples
1. Introduction
The Book
The Study of Queen
Issues of Style
2. Queen's Idiolect: A Primer
Harmonic Structure and Gestures
Textural Foundations and the Sound-Box
Arrangement and Performance Gestures
Sounds like Queen, and Other Conclusions
3. Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry: Queen's Structural Archetypes
Introduction and Definitions
Conventional Forms
Variations on Conventional Forms
Episodic Songs
Artistic Craft and Crafted Artistry
4. Temporal Processes in Queen's Large-Scale Songs
Time and Popular Song
Phrase and Intra-Sectional Linearity
Sectional Temporality
Closure
Queen's Temporal Processes and Exceptions
5. Brian May and Roger Taylor
Analysing the Voice
The Voices of Brian May and Roger Taylor
May, Taylor, and Rock Authenticity
6. Freddie Mercury
The Voices
Structural Dynamics
Stylistic Incongruities, Queer and Camp Voices, and the 'Real' Freddie
Mercury, Rock Authenticity, and Interpretation
Coda
7. Hard Rock, Glam Rock, and Progressive Rock in the 1970s
Commentary and Conceptual Considerations
Queen's 'Dominant Voice': The Hard Rock Connection
The Glam Rock Connection: Exaggeration, Irony, and Play
Progressive Rock and Interplay
8. The Musical World(s) of Queen
A 'Unique' Sonic Fingerprint and Pastiche in the 1970s
Queen's Sonic Patterns and Stylistic Connections
The Musical World(s) of Queen
9. A Day at the Races and the Gestural Unity of Queen
Queen in 1976 and the Ideal of Evolution
The Notion of Gestural Unity: Idiolect Revisited
A Day at the Races
The Gestural Unity of Queen
10. Was It All Worth It? Queen in the 1980s
A Decade of Changing Fortunes.
From 'Save Me' to 'Staying Power'
The Rock Ballads Revisited
Hard Rock by Numbers
Was It All Worth It?
11. Queen's Jubilee: The Late Style of Innuendo
Introduction
'Innuendo'
'The Show Must Go On'
A Late Style of Queen
12. Legacy
Post-1991
Replacing Freddie
'No One But You'
We Will Rock You
The Influence of Queen
The End of the Story
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
01_9780197526736_C01.pdf.
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ISBN
0-19-752677-2
0-19-752676-4
OCLC
1242024210
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